News

The Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM), a project of the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom at the Schuman Centre, has been singled out as a resource in a mission letter by the European Commission's President-elect Ursula Von der Leyen. The MPM systematically assesses risks for media pluralism in the EU 28 and in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey. Read more.

The EUI welcomed the Honorable Carmelo Abela, Maltese Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Promotion, to the campus on Monday 9 September. The Minister was accompanied by the Maltese Ambassador to Italy Vanessa Frazier and Mr. Luca Parenti, the Honorary Consul of Malta in Florence. Malta joined the EUI as a contracting state in June 2018. Read more here.

The EUI joins the HuMetricsHSS Initiative, an international partnership to support the development and implementation of new methods for assessing the nature and quality of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Coordinated by Michigan State University, the Initiative has just received a $695,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to continue its work.

The Institute welcomes the five new full-time professors joining the faculty at the beginning of September. Professors Martijn Hesselink and Neha Jain will take up posts in the Department of Law, while the Department of Political and Social Sciences welcomes Professors Miriam Golden and Arnout Van de Rijt. The Department of History and Civilization will be joined by Professor Giorgio Riello.

The Institute has launched EUIdeas, the first EUI-wide blog to feature the work of faculty, fellows, researchers, and research associates from our academic community. The blog will offer analyses and commentary on social, political, legal, and economic issues. Read the blog and find out how to submit your post here.

Publications

This volume, the published version of Kube's 2018 doctoral thesis in Law, uses the case of the international investment regime and the EU human rights framework to explore what it means to integrate global human rights protection and promotion into foreign policy making.

In 2017, Hans-W. Micklitz invited the most influential figures in the development of consumer law across Europe to a conference on the historical evolution of the field. This volume is the fruit of that conference. More than 20 national-level and European experts--the 'mothers and fathers' of consumer law--provided individual commentary and participated in a concluding round-table discussion. The proceedings are available in open access both as a published book and via audio files.

This book analyses the dynamics of regional migration governance and accounts for why, how and with what effects states cooperate with each other in diverse forms of regional grouping on aspects of international migration, displacement and mobility. The book develops a framework for analysis of comparative regional migration governance to support a distinct and truly global approach accounting for regional developments around the world.

In this volume, the third in a series, more than 50 scholars examine the most significant activities, challenges and achievements of the European Commission between 1986 and 2000. The period was especially dynamic, seeing the completion of the internal market, economic and monetary union, and the opening up of the EU to countries of central and eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin wall. The book is available in open access.